Virtualization implementations are in full swing and server consolidation has led to a wave of savings associated with reductions in physical space requirements and management overhead. Check out this white paper and explore Dell and VMware solutions that are designed to deliver on the promise of virtualization and cloud computing cost benefits. 

Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn’t working. What’s needed is a modern approach to data that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance without sacrificing data consistency or integrity. View this webcast to learn best practices for modern data management. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security. 

In the September 2011 cover story of Storage magazine, Eric Siebert clears up some of the confusion as he looks at the characteristics of Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS and reviews the pros and cons of each for virtual environments. 

This guide reviews the recommended approach for planning and implementing the migration of applications on an IBM Power system running AIX to Oracle’s Sun Fire X4800 Server with the Intel Xeon Processor 7560 running Oracle Linux 5.5 Operating System. 

Virtualization is growing in popularity, but IT managers must decide between maintaining a highly uniform hypervisor environment or utilizing different vendors’ virtual server platforms for different applications. Turn to a mixed hypervisor environment to maximize virtualization benefits and prepare yourselt for a future move to the cloud. 

This tutorial will cover the latest developments in tape storage systems and review the major differences between backup software vs. archiving software. The benefits of tape storage systems, including long-term data archiving will also be discussed. 

This white paper presents a cost/benefit analysis of VDI based on research, surveys, benchmarks, and analyst reviews. Find out how this architecture compares to traditional PCs and obtain key findings and best practices for success. 

In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges. 

Many IT departments see the benefits of desktop virtualization and are in the early planning stages of developing various solutions; however, there are still a range of management issues for IT. Review key pain-points that administrators deal with in regards to virtualizing desktops, and learn about ways to alleviate them. 

This expert content reviews the findings of a survey on information governance as well as providing best practices for creating a successful governance strategy. 

View this video to learn about an advanced cloud platform that can help ensure a successful infrastructure deployment. Review the monitoring and provision capabilities it offers and explore one organization's positive experience with the cloud system.